clapperboard

1. 1.

   photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together

   Broaderphotographic equipment

Other forms of clapperboard

plural

clapperboards·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clapperboard

What does clapperboard mean?

clapperboard means "photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together".

How many syllables are in clapperboard?

clapperboard has 4 syllables: clap-per-bo-ard. The stress falls on "per".

Is clapperboard a common word?

clapperboard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.